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On January 13, 2012, one of the largest cruise ships in the world sank off the coast of the Italian island of Giglio. In September 2013, photographer Danko Kielkowski managed to get inside the liner and take these rare pictures.
It looked like a giant weighing 114 thousand tons after lifting from the bottom of the sea.
Movie theaters, restaurants, casinos, swimming pools, dance halls, corridors, fitness rooms, cabins in various price ranges… It all looks like the ship has been in the water for decades. Complete destruction.
The Costa Concordia has become the largest passenger ship to have ever been wrecked.
The contract for the construction of a vessel with a length of 290 meters, designed for 3,700 passengers and with a crew of 1,100 people for Costa Crociere was signed with the Italian shipyard Fincantieri on January 19, 2002. On September 2, 2005, the ship under serial number 6,122 was launched for 450 million euros.
It is interesting that during the launching and "baptism" of the ship, the bottle of champagne did not break, which is a bad omen.
According to the head of the Italian ports, Vittorio Alessandro, on the day of the tragedy, the ship veered off course and dangerously approached the shore. During the investigation, the captain of the liner Francesco Schettino admitted that he decided to bring the ship closer to the coast of the island of Giglio and greet his friend, the former captain of the Costa Concordia, who lives on the island, as he had done many times in the past.
Experts wondered how a ship that passed this route 52 times a year could deviate from its course by 3-4 miles, come so close to the coast, and, having received a hole, turn over so quickly.
The damage to the owners of the ship is estimated at 1.5 billion euros.
The ship Costa Concordia had 15 decks, 14 elevators, 4 swimming pools, 5 restaurants and provided guests with 1,450 comfortable cabins; on board there was a two-level fitness center (2,000 sq.m), a casino, as well as a Formula 1 simulator.
Wheelchair.
According to media reports, before the ship was lifted, the total cost of lifting the ship for the shipowner company was to be 600 million euros and was equal to the cost of the ship itself.
Concert hall.
Liner Costa Concordia: a look from the inside.
The last photos for memory are taken by almost everyone who passes the postcard views of the Costa Concordia. Today, the liner leaves the coast of the island of Giglio, where. Neither the waves nor the wind, due to which the start of the last journey of the ship was twice postponed, should not interfere now.
Gianluca Galletti, Minister of the Environment of Italy: “The weather for the next four days suits us, the ship is afloat, all our operations have been completed successfully. Only a meteorite fall could stop Costa Concordia from sailing away from the island on Wednesday."
The Italian Minister of the Environment, dressed in a light shirt and without a tie, personally came to monitor the progress of the operation. While the decks of the Costa Concordia were rising above the water thanks to the caisson floats, 150 thousand tons of water poured out of the ship's premises into the sea. She, environmentalists assure, just stagnated, nothing criminal. Much more worries about the safety of the liner during the journey.
Nick Sloane, Operations Manager: “I'm not afraid that the cable will break or there will be some serious problems when towing. Well, perhaps one of the caissons may fall off, but this will not damage the ship in any way and will not affect our plan as a whole. Although we, of course, hope that this will not happen.
As transmits NTV correspondent Ivan Trushkin, Costa Concordia will be insured by 15 escort ships. The three-mile zone around this caravan will be closed to other ships along the entire route, which, by the way, will actually cut off the island of Giglio from the mainland. Until the miserable liner leaves the port, there will be no movement there. One of the directors of this landmark action jokes sadly: Costa Concordia over the years has deprived him of almost all the hair on his head and he simply has no strength to worry.
Franco Gabrieli, head of the Italian Civil Protection Department: “Now I feel like a skier who has been down a high mountain for a long time and already sees the finish line, 100 meters are left. And now the most important thing is not to relax and not to lose vigilance, because these last meters are the most important.
They promise that Costa Concordia will reach the coast of Genoa on Sunday, but the leaders of the operation immediately make a reservation: you should not expect a fast train from this accuracy.
The Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia was wrecked after hitting a reef off Giglio Island on January 13, 2012, killing 32 passengers and crew. 613 days after the disaster, work began on lifting the vessel. The complex rescue operation "parbuckling" was the largest and most expensive in history: it cost $ 800 million, and it took many months to prepare. In fact, the operation took 19 hours, and after its completion, the liner took a vertical position under the joyful cries of the crowd gathered on the coast.
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1. View of the Costa Concordia, after the ship ran aground and fell on its side off the coast of Isola del Giglio, January 14, 2012.
The Costa Concordia sank on January 13 last year off the Italian island of Giglio. The ship, on board of which there were several thousand people, ran into a reef due to the fact that the captain of the ship, Francesco Schettino, decided to come closer to the shore to greet his acquaintance.
During the crash of the liner, 30 people died, two more are missing. More than 4 thousand people were evacuated, some of them were injured.
The Costa Concordia has become the largest passenger ship to have ever been wrecked.
The Italian press published records of the black boxes of the sunken cruise ship Costa Concordia, which were previously considered non-existent due to the recorders allegedly turned off at the time of the voyage. The negotiations serve as convincing evidence of the guilt of the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, and indicate that after the collision with the reef, real panic reigned among the crew members.
Recorder data showed that Schettino took the ship off autopilot and took control at 9:39 p.m., six minutes before the collision, which occurred at 9:45 p.m.
At 09:56, the captain called the rescue officer on duty and admitted his guilt: “I screwed up. Listen, I'm dying. Do not tell me anything". A few minutes later, he called the same officer back, but already tried to shift the responsibility to the junior officer: “This is all Palombo. He told me: "Swim, let's get closer, closer." Well, I swam closer, hitting the reef with the stern. And I just wanted to please him, it's just a disaster.
Further, the captain actually ceased to take part in the management of the ship, delaying the start of the evacuation of passengers. As a result, it began when the ship was already heavily filled with water, and orders were given during the evacuation not by Schettino, but by his colleagues.
Cruise ship captain Francesco Schettino boards a police car in Grosseto, Italy on January 14, 2012. Schettino was arrested on charges of manslaughter.
According to the prosecution, Captain Schettino brought the Costa Concordia cruise ship too close to the coast of the island of Giglio and landed the ship on a rock. If found guilty, the captain faces up to 20 years in prison. Francesco Schettino himself denies the accusations against him, arguing that the rock that the liner ran into was not on the sea charts. The captain's defense during the hearing once again offered the court a plea bargain, under which Schettitino would agree to a three-year prison term if the court ruled that he was only partially guilty of the tragedy. According to forecasts, the fate of the captain is unlikely to be decided before October.
8. Rescuers work near the cruise ship Costa Concordia, lying on its side off the coast of the Tuscan island of Giglio.
9. Rescuers work at the crash site of the liner Costa Concordia.
According to numerous testimonies, confirmed by video recordings, the crew of the Costa Concordia simply failed the rescue operation. Captain Schettino, according to Vesti, instead of starting the evacuation and issuing a distress signal, announced 15 minutes after the collision that the ship simply had minor problems with the generator. Half an hour later, the passengers were already standing near the boats, still sheathed, and the captain again reported trouble with the generator. Only closer to 11 o'clock, when the list reached 30 degrees, there were seven short and one long beeps, which meant that the passengers had to leave the ship. Panic ensued, stampede. Captain Schettino, according to investigators, was one of the first to leave the ship without sending a distress signal. The Coast Guard itself contacted the ship in distress. Only then, late at night, did the real rescue operation begin. Those who did not get into the boat (four did not have time to launch, apparently due to too much roll) were filmed using helicopters when they clung to the rails of the liner that had boarded. Some swam to the shore, which was very close.
10. Transportation of furniture recovered from the sunken liner.
Most of the passengers were taken to the island of Giglio itself. The inhabitants of the island assisted the victims of the crash, brought them food, drink, warm clothes, placed them in the local church, school and other buildings.
On January 14-15, two newlyweds from South Korea and one Italian crew member were found and rescued on the liner.
11. A diver inspects the ship's hull.
12. Divers inside the liner Costa Concordia.
On board the Costa Concordia cruise liner salvaged from the reefs, valuables were found, the total value of which is more than € 10 million. The money and jewelry that the passengers of the sinking liner did not have time to take with them in a hurry were kept in the bank and jewelry boutiques located on board the ship, as well as in the cells in the passenger cabins.
13. The wreckage of the liner under water.
14. Diver inspects the ship.
15. Divers work inside the liner.
On board the sunken liner were about six thousand works of art. The most valuable of them is a rare collection of Japanese engravings of the 18th-19th centuries, in particular the work of Katsushika Hokusai. The liner also contained 19th-century Bohemian glass and other antiques that adorned the interior, decorations from the liner's jewelry stores, and numerous valuables that had been left behind by passengers leaving the ship. In this regard, there were fears that these valuables could become the prey of "treasure hunters"
16. Inside the liner Costa Concordia.
17. Preparations for the operation to remove half a million gallons of fuel from the liner Costa Concordia, January 28, 2012.
On January 16, an oily liquid began to leak from the ship. It was not fuel yet, according to the Italian Ministry of the Environment, but if the ship had slipped off the rocks and broken, then two thousand three hundred tons of fuel could have entered the sea. Therefore, we carried out the pumping of fuel.
18. Costa Concordia off the coast of Giglio.
19. Relatives of the victims of the shipwreck touch a memorial plaque with the names of 32 victims a year after the disaster on the Tuscan island of Isola del Giglio, Italy, January 13, 2013.
21. Specialists collect spilled fuel near the liner Costa Concordia, January 25, 2012.
22. Workers use massive steel tanks to try to return the Costa Concordia to a vertical position on January 11, 2013.
Engineers had never before had to move such a large ship that sank so close to the shore. Costa Concordia weighs more than 114 thousand tons, and the length of the ship is comparable to three football fields.
23. Welders work on the liner Costa Concordia, July 15, 2013. The hull of the liner was compressed by 3 meters under its own weight.
If the liner did roll over, the consequences for the environment would be catastrophic. The reef in the protected area near the island of Giglio would have been destroyed, and the ship itself would have gone deep under water.
26. Employees of the American company Titan and the Italian company Micoperi are working on the liner Costa Concordia, September 15, 2013. The rescue operation "parbuckling" is designed to lift the liner using a series of cables and hydraulic machines.
By mid-2013, the liner was still lying on board near the coast, attracting many tourists. Work was underway to prepare it for lifting: divers were building a platform from the shore side, volumetric square counterweight tanks were suspended on the opposite side, which, after filling with water, were supposed to put the ship on a keel.30. The beginning of the final stage of the operation to lift the liner Costa Concordia, September 16, 2013.33. On September 16, 2013 at 09:00, the operation to raise the vessel began. Photo taken that day: The Costa Concordia is upright for the first time since January 2012.36. Starboard of the Costa Concordia, September 17, 2013.
37. Liner Costa Concordia is in a vertical position after the rescue operation, September 17, 2013.
The 19-hour operation to raise the vessel has ended. The ship was brought to a vertical position with the help of rollers and 36 steel cables and a special platform built at a depth of 30 m.
38. Liner Costa Concordia after a large-scale operation returned to a vertical position to the applause and joyful cries of local residents, September 17, 2013.
Upright, the Concordia will remain off Giglio until at least spring, when the ship is towed to one of the nearby ports. The raising of the ship cost 600 million US dollars.
Not so long ago, one of the most expensive and unprecedented projects in history, which cost 600 million euros, was completed, more than 500 people from 24 countries around the world were involved - the raising of the Costa Concordia cruise liner, which partially sank off the coast of Tuscany (Giglio Island).
Such an operation is practically unprecedented. Cases where such a quantity of force was used can be counted on the fingers. However, neither the risks associated with lifting the liner nor its high cost shook the confidence of the engineers that it was necessary to carry out the lifting.
History of the crash of the Costa Concordia
On January 13, 2012, the liner followed the course of the 7 Night Winter Mediterranean route, which involves leaving the port of Civitavecchia for Savona, the last cruise included the liner calling at the ports of Barcelona, Marseille and several other Italian ports.
January 13, 2012, 22:00 CET the ship was near the island of Giglio (Tuscany, Italy), most of the passengers had dinner at the restaurant at that time. It was then that Costa Concordia ran into a reef, as a result of which it received a hole of about 30 meters. The rescue operation has begun.
From this moment, disagreements begin between the participants in the events - the passengers and the personnel of the liner. It is worth noting that all data can be interpreted from the perspective of individuals, and there are many of these positions (if not to say that almost everyone has their own), but the essence is still the same. According to the victims of the crash, after the collision, the ship tilted, causing panic among most of the passengers, the reaction of the ship's captain was not long in coming, and problems with the liner's generator were announced over the speakerphone.
Despite the fact that further events will not develop for the better, the captain of the ship continues to adhere to this point of view. Despite this, the evacuation continues and passengers gather en masse near the boats. As many passengers note, the liner personnel failed to organize a smooth loading onto the boats. According to the investigation, which was carried out later, it turned out that the captain of the ship, Schettino, left the ship among the first.
After loading onto boats and launching, the personnel and passengers were transported to the shore, where the victims were given first aid. It is worth noting the help of local residents, who provided passengers with warm clothes, food and allocated places for the night. Passengers occupied schools, churches and hotels.
Victims of the Costa Concordia cruise ship crash
On the morning of January 14, 2012 Costa Concordia lay down on the starboard side, touching the bottom. The search for missing persons is organized.
At the time of January 17, the number of victims was 11 people, as well as 25 people were listed as missing. By the beginning of February, search work was stopped in the flooded part of the ship due to the risk to scuba divers conducting search and rescue operations. And by the end of March, data were received on 30 dead and two missing.
Causes of the accident of a passenger liner and punishment of those responsible
As the investigation found out, the cause of the accident was a collision of the liner with a reef, among other things, they do not exclude, as well, a technical failure of the liner's equipment. The experts were outraged by the fact that despite the fact that the liner passes this route 52 times a year, there was a deviation from the course by 3-4 miles. This can be explained by the initial statements of the captain of the liner, Francesco Schettino, who said that, having shifted towards the coastline, he wanted to greet his acquaintance (former captain of Costa Concordia), who lives on the island. However, in the future, Schettino retracted his testimony and shifted the blame to the company manager, who, according to him, insisted that the ship come closer to the shore.
Deciphering the black box showed that the ship was too close to the shore, the start of the evacuation was too late, in addition, the captain did not give a distress signal, which delayed the start of the rescue operation. Until July 17, 2013, Schettino was under house arrest by court order. At the moment, there is a trial, the term proposed by the prosecutor is 2697 years in prison.
Cleanup and rise of Costa Concordia
Already three days after the crash of the ship, an oily liquid began to flow from the ship, experts reassured the public with assurances that it was not fuel. The pumping of fuel began, as there was a possibility that the ship would slide off the cliff. If this happened, more than 2,000 tons could end up at sea. Naturally, no one smiled at such a prospect. However, already on March 24, it was announced that the fuel was pumped out, and literally a month later a tender was held to raise and evacuate the vessel, which was won by Titan Salvage.
The plan for lifting the vessel is quite simple, but it required significant investments, and the operation itself was associated with a high risk of failure of the event, which both the company's engineers and leading experts spoke about more than once. In mid-2013, work continues to prepare for the lifting of the vessel.
On September 16, at 9 am, the operation to lift the Costa Concordia was launched. The length of the liner is 290 meters, the angle of heel was 70 degrees, and the water level was 20 meters. The planned operation time is ideally 12 hours. Below is a graphic plan for lifting the liner.
On September 17, after 19 hours, the operation was finally completed successfully, it was possible to bring the ship to a horizontal position. As a result of the operation, Franco Porcelachi, Vice President of ARNIVAL CORPORATION, reported that everything went perfectly, and most importantly, no environmental damage was noticed. However, despite the fact that the rise was completed successfully, experts do not consider it necessary to relax and remind that this is not the end. In the spring, the liner will have to be transported to the shipyard, where the Costa Concordia will be dismantled.
An Italian company was wrecked off the coast of Italy. Although the incident did not become the largest disaster at sea in terms of the number of victims, the very fact that the new ship, a multi-deck liner equipped with all the necessary equipment, sank in a matter of hours near the coast, was a strong blow to the cruise industry. But the saddest thing was that what happened was not the result of a combination of circumstances or the influence of adverse factors, but was caused solely by the human factor.
The Costa Concordia liner was built at the Italian Fincantieri shipyard in Genoa. The laying of the ship took place on January 19, 2004, and the ship went on its maiden voyage on July 14, 2006. The ship was built by order of Costa Crociere (Costa Cruises), which is part of the cruise corporation Carnival Corporation & plc.
The liner had 17 decks. The passenger capacity of the ship was 3780 people, the crew was 1100 people. The liner belonged to the Concordia class and the ships of the same type were Costa Serena (2007), Carnival Splendor (2008), Costa Pacifica (2009), Costa Favolosa (2011), Costa Fascinosa (2012). Differences of ships of this class from others in the design of the ship, extended wellness area and spa area.
On the evening of January 13, the Costa Concordia left Civitavecchia (a port located near Rome) on a Mediterranean cruise bound for Savona. At the time of the crash, which occurred in the Tyrrhenian Sea near the island of Giglio, off the coast of the Italian region of Tuscany, there were 4252 people on board the liner: 3229 passengers and 1023 crew members.
The crew members, led by Captain Francesco Schettino, did not immediately inform the passengers of what had happened. Panic broke out on board. The evacuation of people from the liner continued throughout the night. Coast guard vessels and lifeboats took part in it, and a helicopter was also involved. The rescue of people was complicated by the fact that many were blocked in the cabins of the liner, and several people fell overboard when the ship ran aground. As a result of the tragedy, 32 people died. On January 14, the ship almost completely sank.
The investigation of the disaster did not take long, but its results shocked no less than the death of a cruise ship. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the infinity of the universe": this expression of Einstein best describes what happened.
Responsibility for the sinking of the ship was assigned to the ex-captain of Costa Concordia Francesco Schettino, who was one of the first to leave the sinking ship. During the judicial investigation, he admitted that the cause of the crash was the unauthorized deviation of the ship from the course. As the reasons why he allowed the route change, he.
“I approached Giglio in order to please the crew member, Antonello Tievoli, who hails from the island. And also to welcome the former captain of the Costa Concordia, Mario Palombo, also a native of these places,” said Schettino.
In 2013-2014, the ship was lifted, after which it was delivered in a floating dock to Genoa for subsequent disposal.
In the autumn of 2014, the authorities of the Italian region of Tuscany, off the coast of which the Costa Concordia liner crashed, stated that the region had suffered serious damage and estimated it at a sum. And to the remains of the ship's hull, located in the port of Genoa, were. At the same time, the cost of the rescue operation, as well as the lifting and towing of the ship, cost more than €1.2 billion.
By the fall of 2016, Costa Concordia was completely scrapped.
And two years ago, in February 2015, an end was put to the fate of Francesco Schettino. And although the prosecutor's office, which offered to sentence the ex-captain of Costa Concordia to 2697 years, softened the requirements to a quarter of a century in prison, as a result, the ex-captain of Costa Concordia received only